The Researchers’ Night will be held on Saturday 1 October between 1 and 6 pm. The European Researchers’ Night is open to all, and entry is free of charge.
International cooperation with partners outside Europe, global academic values, and science-based policy making are among the areas that should be prioritised according to the rectors of Nordic universities who met in Brussels this week.
A research team led by Pétur Orri Heiðarsson, associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Iceland, has received a grant for 1.5 million Euros, or over 200 million Ikr, from the European Research Council (ERC)
Jón Atli Benediktsson, Rector of the University of Iceland, gave the opening address at the Nordic University Days event in Brussels today.
To address the “justice deficit” in cases of sexual violence the international conference Recognising Sexual Violence: Developing Pathways to Survivor-Centred Justice will explore alternative approaches to justice as part of efforts to hold the state and offenders to account.
Jón Atli Benediktsson, Rector of the University of Iceland, and Pär Ahlberger, Ambassador of Sweden in Iceland, today opened the research station Solander's Eye, which is located on Breiðamerkursandur.
New opportunities will emerge at the Aurora universities with increased participation of the University of Minnesota (UMN) in the network.
Freysteinn Sigmundsson, research scientist at the Institute of Earth Sciences (part of the Science Institute, University of Iceland), has been elected as an American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Fellow, for his research and contribution to the field of geophysics worldwide.
Students of the University of Iceland are invited to take part in „Sálrækt - group counseling“ this winter free of charge.
Jón Atli Benediktsson, Rector of the University of Iceland, and Joan T.A. Gabel, President of the University of Minnesota, yesterday signed an agreement in Minneapolis extending the partnership between the universities by another five years.
